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Inquiries Regulations and a draft Environmental Assessments and Inquiries Bill 1990.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
TREASURER'S ADVANCE
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR KAINE (Chief Minister), by leave: Mr Speaker, I table a statement in relation to an increase in the Treasurer's advance. Under section 47 of the Audit Act, the Chief Minister is required to lay before the Assembly a statement setting out the facts upon which the Executive was satisfied that there were additional funds available this year in excess of the moneys required for appropriations. The statement shows that the Treasurer's advance has been increased by an amount of $3.467m and also identifies the purposes for which the additional appropriation is proposed to be charged. I present the following paper:
Audit Act - Statement in accordance with subsection 47(4), together with a letter from Mr B. Gatley, Acting Assistant Under Treasurer, to the Chief Minister, dated 3 May 1990.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts), by leave: Mr Speaker, 12 May 1990 was designated as International Nurses Day. I would like to take this opportunity to speak about developments within nursing services of the Department of Health. The International Council of Nurses, in association with the Florence Nightingale International Foundation, declared 12 May as the most appropriate for nursing. The date is Florence Nightingale's birthday. The council, in close liaison with the World Health Organisation, promotes this date around the world, wherever a nursing organisation exists.
Several goals were originally established for International Nurses Day. However, in 1990 the theme presented was "Nurses and the Environment". This theme is at the
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